Category Archives: Pedantry

Quality Assurance

This is what makes English majors snap and kill 32 people

Loose means not rigidly fastened or securely attached, and has several other meanings that are closely related to this concept. When used as a verb, it means to set free from attachment or constraint.

I frequently run into sloppy writing in fansubs. They’re produced free-of-charge by enthusiasts that are doing a service to the freeloading public, so slip-ups are to be quickly forgiven and forgotten. This one happens to be a pet peeve of mine, and ironic given the context of the dialogue. Maybe if young people hasn’t lost interest in reading, this travesty of syntax would never have happened.

300

This is Madness!

Last month I installed a cute little WordPress plug-in called Search Meter. I figured it’d be neat to look back at March once I had a full 30 days of data to dig into. Despite the search habits of the handful of people that actually try to look at things on this webpage, I’m not in the habit of making movie reviews. Unless they fit into the broad “cartoons” category I’ve maintained for years.

300 is a silly movie. You may like it. You may not. I liked a lot of it. And not many people use the search tool in my navbar.